ECB(i)
1 By David. Defend, O Yah Veh, from them who contend with me; fight them who fight me:
2 uphold with buckler and shield and rise for my help:
3 and draw the spear; shut up and confront them who pursue me; say to my soul, I am your salvation.
4 Shame them - shame them who seek my soul; they who fabricate me evil apostatize and blush:
5 they are as chaff at the face of the wind; and in overthrowing, the angel of Yah Veh overthrows them;
6 their way is dark and slippery; and the angel of Yah Veh pursues them.
7 For gratuitously they hide their net for me in a pit of ruin, which they gratuitously dig for my soul:
8 devastation comes on him such as he never knew; and the net he hid captures him; into that very devastation he falls.
9 My soul twirls in Yah Veh - rejoices in his salvation.
10 All my bones say, O Yah Veh, who is likened to you, who rescues the humble from him who is stronger than he? - yes, the humble and the needy from him who strips him?
11 Witnesses of violence rise; they ask me what I know not:
12 they shalam me evil for good to the bereaving of my soul.
13 And I, in their sickness, enrobe with saq; I humble my soul with fasting: and my prayer returns into my own bosom.
14 I walk as a friend or brother; I prostrate darkened, as one mourns for a mother.
15 And in my limping they cheer and gather together; the smiters gather against me and I know it not; they rip and hush not.
16 With profaners, jeerers at bakings, they gnash on me with their teeth.
17 Adonay, until when see you me? Restore my soul from their devastations - my only from the whelps.
18 I spread hands to you in the great congregation; I halal you among mighty people.
19 May not my enemies cheer over me falsely; - blink with the eye, who hate me gratuitously.
20 For they word not shalom; but fabricate words of deceit against them who rest in the land.
21 yes, they enlarge their mouth against me and say, Aha, aha, our eye sees!
22 You see, O Yah Veh; hush not. O Adonay, be not far from me.
23 Waken - waken to my judgment - to my defence, my Elohim and my Adonay.
24 Judge me, O Yah Veh my Elohim, according to your justness; that they not cheer over me:
25 that they not say in their hearts, Aha, aha, O soul! that they not say, We swallowed him!
26 Shame and blush them together who cheer at my evil; enrobe them with shame and dishonor who greaten against me:
27 that they who delight in my justness shout and cheer; yes, that they say continually, Yah Veh is greatened, who delights in the shalom of his servant.
28 And my tongue meditates of your justness and of your halal all the day long.